I rebuilt my column and in doing so discovered the steering shaft was nearly cut in half due to the lower bearing failing.
With Tony Smiths guidance, in both advice and good used parts, I was able to rebuild the column.
At the time I did a how to in regards to removing the column. Check out post #25 of my build thread:
http://talk.classicparts.com/showthread.php?t=13928&page=2